How to find the mail is unread in java

[Muthiah Raja]

I can able to find the total number of unread mail in particular inbox.But i unable to find the mail is readed mail or unreaded mail.

My requirement is only extract contents if that particular mail is
unread.

But i unable to find what are all the mails which are unreaded.

Please help me,

[Ulf Dittmer]

Have a look at what the Message.getFlags method returns. The Flags.Flag class defines a flag called "SEEN", which indicates whether a message has been retrieved by a client. That is probably as close as you'll get. There is no way to determine if someone actually read it.

[Paul Clapham]

And if your inbox is on a POP3 server, then it doesn't support any flags, and your question is answered in this section of the JavaMail FAQ:

http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/FAQ.html#newmsgs